FINDING IT: These works are located in Room 175, Room 266 and a second-floor lounge of the Computer-Aided Engineering Building.

When artist Biganess Livingstone attended UW-Madison, one professor told her, “Just paint.” Although she said she’d rather draw, Livingstone combined computer technology, pad and pen—and her professor’s paint—into unique works of art.

They began as computer images that Livingstone saw take shape on a computer monitor as she “drew” them with a stylus and pad. Then she printed color copies of her work, took slide photographs of the copies, projected the images on blank canvas, and painted her drawings. Two such oil-and-acrylic paintings enliven space in the Computer-Aided Engineering Building, as do three smaller inkjet prints. The paintings, “Waite” and “Hi,” entertain students in Room 175; injket “Sabstra” overlooks an upper-story public lounge, while injkets “Pabstra” and “Waite” brighten a nearby conference room. Look closely at Livingstone’s original inkjet print of “Waite” in Room 266, then see how she interpreted her own work in the painting in Room 175.

Livingstone, who received a master’s of fine arts from UW-Madison in 1980, is an emeritus professor of art at the University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley in Menasha.

Selected through the Wisconsin Arts Board under the state’s Percent for Art program.

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